Pauline Delaney

Pauline Delaney was an Irish actress who worked across stage, television, and film. She was born in Drumcondra, a suburb of Dublin, and left school to work as a trainee fashion buyer before training at the Brendan Smith Academy of Acting. Her first professional job was a touring production of Charley's Aunt, and she joined the Dublin Globe Theatre company in its early years. From 1958 to 1995 she acted in thirteen feature films, including Young Cassidy (1965) and The Quare Fellow (1962). Her television career stretched from 1962 to 2005, with more than seventy appearances in plays and popular series such as Z-Cars, Rumpole of the Bailey, The Bill, Public Eye, and Casualty. She also had a substantial stage career, performing at the National Theatre in London in Juno and the Paycock, at the Barbican Theatre in The Hostage, and at Wyndham's Theatre in Philadelphia Here I Come.